Rajdatta Patkar, the Indian software professional facing charges of attempting to blackmail Bob Awana, will withdraw his “not guilty” plea and enter a new plea in response to the charges next week. A hearing on the motion to enter a new plea will be held before Judge Michael Seabright on Thursday, July 5. The move [...]
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Here’s a link to the Advertiser breaking news report, which quotes Gov. Lingle: “Late yesterday afternoon, Chief of Staff Bob Awana and I discussed his current situation, and we mutually concluded it was in the best interest of all that he resign his position effective immediately,” Lingle said in her statement. The Star-Bulletin’s Richard Borreca [...]
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A hearing that might have produced additional information in the convoluted case of the alleged blackmail of Gov. Lingle’s chief of staff was cancelled at the last minute after the attorneys apparently reached an agreement on the handling of information. The hearing had been scheduled to consider a motion filed by Patkar’s federal public defender [...]
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The Star-Bulletin reports today on plans by Elite Pacific Properties to auction off a portfolio of properties next month. The story stems from a press release distributed by the company. The first sentence of the release describes the need to be creative in “a slow real estate market”, but the notion that Hawaii’s real estate [...]
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